Project summary

What happens when you look at one of the world's most overlooked regions through a lens of compassion, technology, and foresight? You get Atheer Animals.

In the SWANA region, conversations around AI safety, tech ethics, and animal welfare rarely cross paths. While artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping industries and digital spaces, the well-being of non-human sentience remains a blind spot—untouched, unmapped, and largely ignored.

Atheer Animals is here to change that narrative by building a bridge between cutting-edge AI insights and regional grassroots advocacy. Here is how we bring this vision to life:

• AI-Powered Synthesis & Translation: We leverage modern AI tools to distil, translate, and contextualize complex global research—from animal harm benchmarks to sentient ethics—into compelling, accessible Arabic and regional content.

• Cultivating Tech Salience: We actively engage regional technologists, developers, and thinkers, ensuring that animal welfare considerations are no longer an afterthought in the local tech and digital ecosystem.

• Digital Watch & Impact Tracking: We monitor emerging digital trends, agricultural technologies, and narrative shifts across SWANA to spot risks early and shine a light on high-leverage opportunities for advocacy.

Atheer Animals is more than just a digital platform; it’s an early-stage spark designed to seed a culture of empathy and foresight where it’s needed most.

What are this project's goals? How will you achieve them?

The Goal: To spark compassion and bring animal welfare into tech and public conversations across SWANA, turning a major regional blind spot into a space of digital empathy and foresight.

• The How: We’ll use AI to translate global animal ethics into accessible regional content, engage local tech minds, and monitor emerging digital trends to spot high-impact advocacy opportunities early.

How will you know it worked?

The Human Success Story: We’ll know we’ve truly made a difference when the conversation shifts from silence to action—when local technologists and digital creators in SWANA actively engage with our AI-translated insights, when animal sentience finally finds its place in regional tech and ethics discussions, and when we see real, grassroots momentum sparking across communities that once overlooked it entirely.

How will this funding be used?

Every dollar of this funding acts as seed capital for empathy and innovation across SWANA:

• Turning Research into Stories: Funding the AI tool subscriptions and contextual translation work needed to distill complex global research—like animal harm benchmarks and sentient ethics—into compelling, culturally resonant Arabic content.

• Sparking the Conversation: Running targeted digital campaigns and interactive media to put animal welfare on the radar of regional technologists, developers, and local communities.

• Sustaining Lean Operations: Keeping the engine running with the basic operational and research management needed to keep the project agile, consistent, and focused on real-world impact.

Who is on your team? What's your track record on similar projects?

The Team & Mindset: I lead Atheer Animals not as a distant institution, but as a deeply personal mission backed by years of hands-on experience bridging complex global initiatives with regional realities in SWANA. Rather than a rigid bureaucracy, our project operates as an agile, mission-driven effort, collaborating with dedicated local researchers, native translators, and community advocates who share a commitment to evidence-based welfare.

Proven Track Record: My work has consistently focused on translating high-level concepts into grounded, impactful action:

• Project Leadership: Serving as an Education Project Coordinator with RHD, managing multi-stakeholder teams, coordinating with local authorities, and ensuring strategic execution.

• Animal Ethics & Translation: Working directly as a Research Assistant and translator with an international Animal Ethics organization, making vital welfare reports and resources accessible in Arabic.

• Selection & Evaluation: Serving on international selection committees for programs like the Community Solutions Program (IREX-USA) and acting as a Local Expert for WSA-Global, evaluating impactful social and digital initiatives.

Together, this background gives me the exact blend of operational discipline, linguistic precision, and regional insight needed to turn Atheer Animals from an early-stage spark into a lasting, high-impact reality.

What are the most likely causes and outcomes if this project fails?

• Why it could fail: Animal welfare and tech ethics are uncharted territory in SWANA. If the cultural friction is too high or technologists stay detached, building early momentum will be an uphill battle.

• What happens if it does: Even if the community doesn't click right away, we lose nothing and gain everything. We leave behind the region’s first open-access Arabic animal ethics digital commons—proving what works, mapping the blind spots, and de-risking the path for whoever tries next.
  

How much money have you raised in the last 12 months, and from where?

Funding History: None yet. Atheer Animals is currently an early-stage, concept-level initiative—meaning this application to the Falcon Fund is one of our very first steps toward securing seed capital to bring the vision to life.